Reverse Transfer of Technology

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 58United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, published in 1978.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1978–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/184

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What subjects does this mandate have?

2 topics

Brain Drain Reverse Transfer of Resources

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 1978.

1978E/1978/92The "brain drain" problem : outflow of trained personnel from developing to developed countries report of the Secretary General

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What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs

Rea[firms the right of free access to and from the sea of the developing land-locked countries, as well as their right of freedom of transit;

Invites the developed countries, other States and international organizations and financia! institutions to implement specific action for the benefit of such countries, as envisaged in resolutions 63 (III) and 98 (IV) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other resolutions adopted by the United Nations;

Urges members of the international community to provide land-locked developing countries with technical and financia! assistance in the form of grants or concessional loans for the construction, improvement

Rev.1 ) , annex I.

Annexcs (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.II.D.4), annex LA.

174 /bid., Fourth Session, vol. I, Report and Annexes (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.II.D.10 and corrigendurn), part one. sect. A. and maintenance of their transport and transit infrastructure and facilities;

Requests the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other agencies within the United Nations system to take effective mea~ures in order to provide increased resources to meet the technical assistance needs of the land-locked developing countries;

Confi,rms paragraph 6 of Economic and Social Council resolution 2127 (LXIII).

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Rever!'le transfer of technolo~y

Thc General Assembly,

Recalling its resolutions 3201 (S-VI) and 3202 (S-VI) of 1 May 1974 containing the Declaration and thc Programme of Action on thc Establishment of a New Tnternational Economic Order and 3281 (XXIX) of 12 Dccember 197 4 containing the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States,

Bearing in mind its resolution 3017 (XXVII) of 18 December 1972 on the outflow of trained personnel from developing to developed countries,

Recalling also Economic and Social Council reso- Iution 1904 (LVII) of 1 August 1974 on the outflow of trained personnel from developing to developed countries, in which the Council, inter alia, recommended that countries which benefit from the ''brain drain", particularly those which gain most from the "brain drain" from developing countries, should consider the adoption of measures which would help, directly or indirectly, to diminish the gravity of the problem,

Rea{firming its resolution 3362 (S-VII) of 16 Septembcr 1975 on development and international economic co-operation, in which it emphasized, in section III, paragraph 1 O, the urgent need to formulate national and international policies to avoid the "brain drain" and to obviate its adverse effects,

Endorsing resolution 87 (IV) of 30 May 1976 of the Unitcd Nations Confcrence on Trade and Devclopment174 concerning the strengthening of the technological capacity of developing countries and, in particular, paragraph 18 thereof, in which the Conference recommended that ali countries, particularly those benefiting from the "brain drain", should, in the light of the studies assessing the magnitudc, composition, causes and effects of thc outflow of trained personnel from the developing countries which were called for in resolution 2 (I) of 5 Deccmbcr 1975 of the Committee on Transfer of Technology, 17G consider what measurcs might be nccessary to deal with the problems posed by such an outflow,

C onscious that the development process of the developing countries, particularly thcir capacity to strengthen their domestic tcchnolog:cal potential, is crucially dependent on the supply of highly trained pcrsonnel, and

17" See Of]icial Records of tlze Trade al'ld Development

593), annex l.

that the outflow of such personnel represents a significant loss to those countries,

Taking into account the fact that a Group of Governmental Experts on Reverse Transfer of Technology will be convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Confercnce 011 Trade and Development in accordance with resolution 2 (1) of the Committee on Transfer of Technology,

Taking note of the constructive proposal made by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan at the sixty-third session of the International Labour Conference on 1 O Junc 1977, concerning the establishment of an international labour compensatory facility to compensate labour-cxporting countries for their loss of highly trained personnel,

Recommends that the Mcmber States conccrned and the competent international organizations should, as a matter of urgency, give due consideration to the formulation of policies with a view to mitigating the adverse consequences associated with the "brain drain";

Urges the developing countries to make a thorough evaluation at the national level of the special characteristics of the "brain drai11" problem;

Also urges the developing countries to give immediate consideration to the modalities for promoting collective self-reliance among themselves with a view to using and developing their human resources on the basis of mutual advantage within the broader framework of co-operation in the field of trade, technology and capital;

Further urges the dcveloped countries to support measures designed to e11courage the absorption of trained personnel within the developing countries and to support the activities of the international organizations aimed at finding solutions to this problem without prejudice to existing international agreemcnts;

Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the International Labour Organisation and bearing in mind the recommendations made by the Group of Governmental Experts on Reverse Transfer of Technology, to undertake an in-depth study of the "brain drain" problem. taking into account specific proposals made on this subjcct, including the proposal referred to in the eighth preambular paragraph abovc;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit the results of the study to the Economic and Social Cou11- cil at its sixty-fifth session and, through it, to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session, taking into account the relevant work being undertaken in other parts of the United Nations system.

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